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25 Céntimos Santo Tomé
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santo Tomé |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in black on thick buff card stock, the note is divided into three horizontal registers separated by ornamental guilloche-style border rules. The uppermost band carries a repeating foliate and scroll decorative frieze. The central field bears the issuing authority name in bold letterpress type, with the locality designation below in smaller capitals. The lower register displays the face value in large bold figures. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted buff card stock forming a blank reverse, with a handwritten serial number inscribed in ink toward the left margin in a vertical orientation, accompanied by a faint partial circular stamp impression. |
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Santo Tomé is a small olive-growing municipality in the Sierra de Segura, and this 25 céntimos piece is a wartime local emergency issue — one of thousands of cartones and vales de necesidad produced by Spanish town councils during the Civil War when the Republic's small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by 1936–37. Hoarding, melting, and simple panic stripped the country of its copper and bronze. Municipal councils filled the gap themselves, often printing on whatever card stock was at hand.
Local issues from rural Jaén are among the most ephemeral of the series — produced in tiny quantities for strictly local use, with no central oversight of design, paper, or print quality.